Re: --disable-install-libiberty and libiberty.a

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Burgess
On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 06:13 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Matt Burgess > wrote: > > > > 1) We currently assume that binutils is 'upstream' for libiberty > > development, and should therefore 'own' the libiberty.a file. Is that > > assumption correct? > > No.

Re: --disable-install-libiberty and libiberty.a

2013-03-29 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Matt Burgess wrote: > > 1) We currently assume that binutils is 'upstream' for libiberty > development, and should therefore 'own' the libiberty.a file. Is that > assumption correct? No. The master sources for libiberty are in the GCC repository. > 2) The --dis

--disable-install-libiberty and libiberty.a

2013-03-29 Thread Matt Burgess
Hi all, libiberty.a is built and installed by a number of packages, such as binutils, gcc, gdb. When packaging for an OS, it's desirable to only have libiberty.a installed by one package to avoid conflicts as to which package 'owns' the file. Related to this are the following questions: 1) We c